But as soon as he posted it an opportunist nicked it and used it as his own profile on the dating app in what's known as "catfishing".

Catfishing is the term for when a person tries to lure someone into a relationship by adopting a fictional online persona.

After discovering that his celebratory picture had been pinched on Friday, the gold-medallist tweeted a screen shot of the Tinder profile of Benjamin, 24, saying: "Someone is using my profile pic as a Tinder profile. Ironic hes probs (sic) getting more matches than me."

He posted the picture of him with the medal as he travelled home from Rio

Tinder is a location-based social search service app that facilitates communication between people, allowing matched users to chat. It's commonly used for dating but is branching out to provide more services, making it more of a general social media application.

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